Selling on Ebay

....I can imagine chit chatters searching their attics for old mail order catalogues!

Seemingly, fashion designers steal ideas from them.

Sold a Hardy Salmon Fishing Reel for my dad. He said it was rare and might make £100.  From memory 48 bids and went for nearly £500.  He has several others, some "better" but says they are for the grandchildren.

A Michael McIntyre DVD.

I think I got as much as 75p for it but ended up out of pocket as posrage was free.

The mistake I made was typing in my description, "serious bidders only, please".

I think I put off the bidders with a sense of humour.

My mother in Law was a Freemans Agent , it is absolutely Tragic she is not a Hoarder

People often pay more than an items worth because they are determined to'win' the bidding.

Black. Hardy Reels worth Big money as you say. My friend made fortunes Picking them up at BOOTS,and selling them on ..

You have no luck casemoney

casemoney - correct!  what is weird, or perhaps not weird, is that that the rank order of value seems to be salmon, trout, course and sea reels in that order. He has a huge 6" Hardy alloy sea reel that he used to beach casting with. It is lovely and is going nowhere, even though it is "low" value.

If you sell a collectable item and two collectors want it to complete there collection, it's great fun watching the p rice go up and up!

Blackbarn do you collect the Ogden cigarette cards? Some nice sets on Ebay, including famous owners colours.

Yes I have several sets of Ogdens and also sets by other manufacturers

Are they originals or reprints? Hope you don't mind me asking. I have a good collection of baseball cards. Big money can be made on them if you get the right one. The very old ones.

Among other things that is , He was a very astute person would pay literally Pennies for things at Carboots and make money on them ,he had amassed a fortune in Dinky/Corgi toys Etc that he would knock out occasionally ,He bought a Boat went to Holland to pick it up  ,think it was a Torpedo boat Paid 2k for it got it towed back to the UK ,some how managed to obtain Moorings
at Hampton court (rental) The boat became a Houseboat which he stayed on ,He then Sold the boat in Situ with the moorings for
Circa 100,000 , He invested that in a semi Rural Derelict House Nottingam , Lord knows where he would have ended up money wise ,but shortly after Buying the House he Dropped Dead brain  aneurysm ,Aged 50 ,A book could have been Written about him
a Tearaway for his younger  years ,Then 20/25 years back he Obtained a book regarding Toy cars and their Value Sorry for Rambling He was a good Friend a Real Character ,He was actually arrested and held for attempted Murder for a couple of  days, after a CCTV picture of him at a nearby garage Appeared in the Local Hounslow Paper ,had absolutely nothing to do with it Was just stopping for petrol at a Garage near where the incident had Taken place .. I dont think that done him any Favours Tbh

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Mac your Spot on mate

I can remember the Seasonal Catalogues being Delivered she had dozens of the fckin things in the House ,an absolute Disaster

  I'll tell you one thing if you ever ordered summat you never missed a Payment

A shop near me had 2 tubs of a pet product that they were selling for £1 each.  They looked too good for a quid so I had a look online and found the brand website retails them for £37 each.  I went back, bought the lot (144 items) and am currently selling them for £25 each.

Hey TMM, I collect baseball cards too, albeit only Milwaukee Brewers. I do have plenty of non-Brewers but they are all for sale, and have a few Topps factory sets, which aren't. Are yours mainly vintage? If so, do you sell them on ebay? In my experience ebayUK is a terrible place to be selling, although I've had some great deals buying - once bought a box of 70s stuff for a tenner and it contained multiple cards that paid for the box by themselves. I still have two Pete Maravich RCs from it, just waiting to ship them off to the US when I can be arsed.

Sold a Gold and Wonder cheese and onion crisp packet (empty) got £5 for it, apparently gold and wonder we're going bust, in the end they didn't go bust, not sure what happened but got a fiver so was happy went out an bought some walkers

Hi Mikael, I like the vintage cards featuring the great players, but I have lots of modern ones mostly Topps. I did sell all the  doublers I had on Ebay USA as a job lot. I remember conversing with a poster on the Baseball forum many years ago who was a Brewers fan and actually came from Milwaukee.

Was Maravich not a Basketball player?

Barry Bonds signed and sent me a limited edition card celebrating his record breaking 762 Home Runs! Pity about the bad press which may have decreased it`s value.

Pistol Pete Maravich was indeed a basketball player.

I have some old Bowman cards but they are special

Thanks joel

I have some basketball cards from the early 90's but will most likely throw them out as they are not worth much at all.

Where do these cards come from Mac.
I have a couple of collections (bought framed) of old cigarette cards.
Were yours cigarette cards as well?

Yeah, Maravich played hoops. Came in a box with bundles of stars - Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to me and you,) Nolan Ryan, Thurman Munson, even OJ Simpson. Sold all bar the basketball cards since they're the 'tallboy' size and I had no way to protect them.

I still buy Bonds now, bought two this morning in fact. Values have indeed plummeted but they're recovering.

(You sure the Brewers fan wasn't me? My wife is from Milwaukee...)

I listed an old Freemans catalogue 1970s thinking I might get a fiver for it. It sold for £190


I can understand why this sold for such a price.  Many a bloke who was a teenager in the 1970's will have fond memories of the ladies underwear section in the Freemans catalogue

Most cards from the mid-80s to mid-90s are practically worthless, due to the extreme overproduction. If you have a Michael Jordan rookie or some Precious Metal Gems, you're rich though!

Aka, I have some old Baseball cigarette cards, but mostly collectors cards which are a bit bigger.

They are highly collectable. Honus Wagner's 1909-11 T206 card sold for over 3 million dollars. Old cards can get over one millions dollars like Topps Micky Mantle card.

The framed cards you have aka, are they Baseball? They could be worth a right few quid depending what they are

A 52 Mantle recently sold recently for $2.88M.

Did I mention it was recently?

When ebay first started my mrs and I used to sell her unwashed briefs. It started as a joke but it escaleted and we were selling 10-15 pairs a week @ £5 ea. We stopped when we found out her brother had bought some!!!!

For a laugh..i advertised on e bay for sale ..A BAG OF WIND..5 bidders wanted it .   in total 35 bids were placed..went to 27 pounds..caused an awful stink when I explained it was a hoax

Mikael, I would have remembered if it had been you (unless you had another nom de plume). It may have been sparkmaster who sadly is no longer with us.

Sparky was indeed born in Milwaukee but had very limited interest in the Brewers, and even less in baseball, though he was a big fan of Green Bay of course.

My other name was Easter1916. If there has been another Brewers fan on here, apart from honorary fans Tommy Toes and Fishy, I would've been all over them! (Not to say there isn't/wasn't, just not sure how I woulda missed them.)

Anyone sold horse racing memorabilia? Got a hoard that i could do with getting rid of.

Geoff - Not much money to be had with racing books or dvds, but old vintage memorabilia can fetch good money with a little luck.

A lot tougher now to make money selling on ebay.

Much more competition with sellers cutting margins to the bone.
Buyers have wised-up and have less money to spend.
Sellers catch on very quickly - if you have found something that sells well, someone else will follow.
Items going "missing" in the post.
Ebay imposing onerous rules on sellers.

Cheers TMM.

Geoff - rare vintage racing books can fetch good money if in good nick, e.g. Charlie Smirke, Eph Smith, John Porter are quite rare. Modern biographies go for a couple of quid, Timeform annuals fetch ridiculously low prices, Dick Francis novels the same.

.... if you have Aynsley china of Arkle or Nijinsky you will get good money. Plates are not worth much including Royal Doulton. Personalised items associated with famous racing people like Fred Archer can be very valuable.

A copy of "Tesio In His Own Words" will probably fetch a few hundred quid.

I would have thought you'd struggle to give away a Dick Francis novel.

1p for Dick Francis novels on Amazon. Nat Gould novels were better but very hard to find nowadays.

I have a very good copy of Tesio In His Own Words.

I have a nice copy of Sir Gordon Richard`s biography My Story. It`s a very good read. Odds were stacked against him making it as a jockey and being a son of a coal miner, it was more likely he would end up down pit. Remarkable achievement. The book itself is of no particular value as there seems to be lots of them still in circulation ..... but mines is a signed copy which adds to the value. After all he cant sign anymore.

Geoff M - "Anyone sold horse racing memorabilia? Got a hoard that i could do with getting rid of".

If you would like to pm me with what you have, I can give you some advice.  I bought and sold in this market for many years, but no longer, so my advice will be unbiased. I need nothing more for my collection, unless you have any "Tout" caricatures or any Britains "Racing Colours" lead figures/jockeys

There was two big cast iron jockeys (with colours) on Ebay recently. Was it you that bought them BB?

My cards British Horses, Footballers and Trains Mac.
Came as a job lot. Framed 5 x 5. Got a games/computer room and bought them for that along with some framed Claire Eva Burton prints.

blackbarn

have you been to the new Horse racing museum?

Hi Delta,  not not yet!   I hear it is excellent and will defo go on my next visit to Norfolk (nb I do know Newmarket is in Suffolk!!)

I have stacks of football programmes (maybe 400) 60s to early 80s, a few 1950s Leeds United ones. Many clubs, possibly 50 different ones.

They've been gathering dust for years. Gut feel is they won't be worth much.

There was a guy selling 20 pics (delivered via email) of his wife posing
for £15 noticed he had sold quite a few lots.
Purchased the set then relisted for £4.99 I sold 400 sets in 2 weeks.
He was giving me abuse and complaining to ebay.
The deciding factor was there was zero copyright and at no point had he
stated they were not for resale.

Many years ago I bought four Pelham puppets for £75. One was a witch doctor, not much to it with a grass skirt. Sold it to a fella in Germany for £135

If I remember correctly I think I made about as much again if not a bit more on the other three. Funnily enough the one I thought would make a few bob, Pinky out of Pinky and Perky only made £30 !

Good job I checked last post, spell check had it come out as Kinky out of Kinky and Perky

Hi Blackbarn. Will do give me a day or 2 to put a bit of a list together .
Mainly books/photos/dvds/racecards/frankel memorabilia/racing posts etc.................. from mid 70s onwards
Many thanks for the kind offer.

Im rattling about in 4 bed house and gonna downsize next year so got to look to start getting rid of all/most

Geoff, don't suppose THAT photo of Pendil is among the lot...?

Racecards can fetch a few bob. Racing Posts, not so much. A search of sold items suggests it needs to be a big item on the front page - Arazi's BC sold for £6.05, Northern Dancer's death £8.08, so not talking a lot. Maybe Dessie's GC or the 'Sad Mad Bad' might be worth summat...

Somebody might pay for something like all the Tony Morris columns, for example.

That said, you're no doubt better off listening to blackbarn!

Just noticed that the Northern Dancer one has 'Shop Copy' written on it. A pristine, not-nicked version might get a tenner!

Have a  1970 Derby card in perfect condition Nijinsky won that year worth around £150

I had every edition of the Racing Post. Was getting out of hand, so I put the lot in the skip. Worth nowt. Now old comics, that`s a different story. The money you can make off them, if you have the right ones, is quite staggering. Got over £500 for a pile of Tiger comics in very good condition.

Thanks TMM, but that's not THE pic (as you probably well know.) Made me switch to the new forum for nowt!

I've made a sale this evening to a chap 5 minutes up the road.  Do I drop it over, saving myself a couple of quid, or do I preserve my anonymity and post it?

No problem Mikael. Photos of Pendil are indeed very rare, despite him being one of the greatest chasers that ever lived. Is it this one perhaps

Made you switch again!

Post it lybertine

It just dawned on me Mikael. It must be the famous one when he is jumping the open ditch, a spectacular photo

You did make me switch and yes, it is the open ditch pic that I mean. Started a thread about it a few years ago.

I woulda got Indian Skimmer instantly btw!

Actually, not sure it was a ditch come to think of it. Either way, spectacular is the perfect word.

Bumped the thread on hoss racing.

I have stacks of football programmes (maybe 400) 60s to early 80s, a few 1950s Leeds United ones. Many clubs, possibly 50 different ones.

They've been gathering dust for years. Gut feel is they won't be worth much.

You might be surprised what a fan will pay.  I sold a 1970 Forest v Everton programme (with ticket) to an Everton fan for £30.

Don't ever be tempted to deliver or have ebay items collected unless it is strictly cash only. If buyer has paid by Paypal he can simply go back to them a week or two later and claim non delivery. You of course will have no receipt of posting therefore you lose every time.

ebay winds me up lazy sellers who take forever to post, then they all use the same excuse of family problems.
ok granted people do have them but weak excuse.
purchased an item last wednesday and just contacted the seller today.
Amazing reply that I just caught him in the act of posting and hes sorry had family trouble.

Buyers who don't turn up.  Selling something for pennies, wait in for the buyer who doesn't turn up. I text him no reply. Text the next day, no reply. Leave it a couple of days still nothing. Write a negative feedback...the bloke is on the phone in 1/2 hr saying when can he call.  Told him not to bother...or words to that effect.

My last two purchases.

No sorry does not come with tracking number and very sorry its being posted today ive had family issues to deal with and not had the time but im on my way to post in next 20mins

Hi
I am at work so do t have postage receipt with me I will send when home this eve. Though do apologise it was only posted Monday as late home Friday and working Sat am ..sorry I should have advised .

My last two ebay purchases never arrived. The first one 'forgot to post'. Never bothered asking the second one.

Sellers like that should be banned from selling.
You either want to sell or not, its not much effort.
And if you plan your listings properly then it should end at a time
that will allow you to dispatch within two days, obviously the buyer paying
can dent that, but a slow payer cant then moan about slightly delayed dispatch.

Got over £500 for a pile of Tiger comics in very good condition.


I feel sick. I had a massive collection of those in pristine condition, circa 57-59. My favourite comic at the time, and I hoarded them most carefully. Guess what happened to them!

What era were yours TMM, 60's at a guess, making mine worth even more, if only.

Sorry kenny, this will make you feel worse, they were mostly Tiger & Jag early 70s. Some individual ones from 60s can sell for over £50. Collectors looking for particular editions to make up their collection.

Oh well, TMM. I've spent a lot more than that on booze **** and women. I've wasted a lot too.lol

Loved Tiger Comic.

Roy of the Rovers of course, Spike and Dusty, frogmen in WW2. Olac The Gladiator, Jeff Jackson, racing driver and Talking Sport With The Skipper to name but a few. Happy days.

f a g s, not been allowed for years, for some reason.

Billy`s Boots, Hotshot Hamish, Skid Solo, A Horse Called Ugly, Skid Solo and Johnny Cougar

Happy Days indeed kenny!

A couple of those ring a bell, but I was probably going in pubs by then.

At least you enjoyed them and have memories of them.
Worth more than money that is.